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FCC head defends internet neutrality rules

New York - The head of the Federal Communications Commission is taking the defence of new internet regulations on the road.

FCC chair Tom Wheeler said on Tuesday that "there needs to be a referee" for the internet. He's a keynote speaker at the Mobile World Congress wireless show in Barcelona, Spain.

The FCC's vote last week approved "net neutrality" rules that prevent internet providers such as Comcast and Verizon from slowing or blocking web traffic or from creating internet fast lanes that content providers must pay for.

Verizon says the FCC turned to a 1934 law to regulate the internet. AT&T says the rules politicise the internet.

Wheeler said the rules won't hurt network operators' "revenue streams" from consumer services and that the agency "modernised" the old law, leaving out many parts.

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